LINGUIST List 7.98

Tue Jan 23 1996

Qs: IPA Font, Adjectives, Non-Native Slips of the Tongue

Editor for this issue: Annemarie Valdez <avaldezemunix.emich.edu>

Directory

1. Satina, IPA Font?
2. "David Harris", FW: Question about Adjectives
3. "HOLOWACZ William", Slips Of the Tongue and Non-Native Speakers

Hello,

 Am trying to track down a good IBM-format font for the IPA symbols.
If you know of one, preferably shareware that I can download, please
respond directly to: Satinasc.edu

 Thank you!

 Satina
 Univ. South Carolina
 Columbia

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From: 	David Harris
Sent: 	Thursday, January 18, 1996 7:53 PM
To: 	'IN%"linguisttam2000.tamu.edu"'
Cc: 	'conlangdiku.dk'
Subject: 	Question about Adjectives

 Greetings: I am a language enthusiast who has recently taken an
interest in the more technical side of language (ie. linguistics.) I
have been making my way through a variety of basic textbooks in
linguistics, and I'm amazed everyday at how much I am learning about
languages.

 Right now, I am doing a few studies of my own to get a better
handle on certain aspects of various sub-fields. What I specifically
want to do at the moment is to assemble a list of the various types of
adjective groupings that appear in languages. I want to know, for
example, if adjectives can be defined in smaller sets according to the
attribute they express, ie. color, size, material make-up. At first, I
dove right in to the task, thinking I could accomplish this in no
time. Gradually, I came to the conclusion that more abstract
attributes would make my job much more difficult than I had imagined.
There are those, for example, that deal with time: (erstwhile, former,
future, veteran, etc. etc.) personality traits (generous, intelligent,
kind) present state of mind (afraid, angry) complexity of make-up
(simplistic, complicated - MAYBE THIS PARTICULAR GROUP COULD BE
SUBSUMED UNDER ANOTHER?) and, I suppose you could say that there are
proper adjectives just like there are proper nouns (Kafka-esque,
Dadaistic, a New York winter, a Genovese gentleman, even the English
language.) It finally occured to me that there may be some basic
listing put together in a study years and years back that every
linguist knew about and that it may just be a matter of asking on a
list or news group with a language-related theme. So, here I am. Does
anyone know of such a listing? I am also interested in discovering
what structural differences there might be between the members of such
groupings, so if you care to comment on that, I'd appreciate that as
well. As is the common practice on other lists of this type, I'll
gladly send out a summary of the answers I get. Thanks,

Dear Linguists,

 Would anyone know of any studies concerning slips of the tongue made
by non-native speakers of english and the implications with regards to
language interference?

Thank you,

William Holowacz

w.holowaczhermes.humana.univ-nantes.fr